I actually like the Albino Technicolor Dream Coat Turkey. It has boo-tiful plumage (really!), and a nice face. Perhaps a bit confused at how it ended up with a white neck and colorful tail, but who wouldn't be.

Whew! I saw that last one (or at least one VERY similar) at my local market last week. I tried to take a picture, but my phone was out of memory. I was rapidly trying to delete, when the baby took a look at it and started wailing. She was either scared or wanted her diaper changed... maybe both.

clown turkey looks a little like the Elephant Man. (shudder) with punctuation on his forehead. and a French mustache over his tongue. wearing a rennaissance collar (think Elizabeth I portraits). (and what is the mass of cake behind him supposed to be?)

#2 must have pissed off Zeus. He looks like he's been shot by 5 bolts of lightning!

Numbers two, three and four (or B, III, and 8/2, as Jen might say) actually look pretty good-- just not at all like turkeys. The Electrocuted Turkey is one of the least horrible CCCs I've seen, and has a certain ... er ... energy ... to the design. And even the Vortex of Insanity Turkey is charming, in a sort of "Art Brut" way.But the others ... Crikey!

Before next Thanksgiving, I'm going to see if some foundation will give me a grant to educate people about how turkeys actually look. For example, did you know that they are birds, and have feet, wings, tails, bodies, and heads with beaks? These photos, if I can get the photographers' permission, will be attached to my grant proposal to demonstrate the evils of allowing people who have never seen a turkey (nor, apparently, even a decent picture of one) to try to potray our favorite Thanksgiving entree'.

Can't resist this WV code: quesseso. What Spanish people say when they see the Coiled Crap-Turkey: ?Que ess eso?

My five-year-old thought the sheet cake one had a high heel on it's head. She also couldn't identify several cakes as being turkeys. Now, that's pretty sad when an imaginative five-year-old can't identify the wreckage!

The electrocuted Turkey made me spray Sprite out of my nose. That is the most 'shocking' cake I think I've ever seen on this site (har, har!)

And seriously, the swirled pile o' doody cake? Do you think some decorators are just pushing the envelope to (a) see what people are actually willing to purchase, and (spoon) to see if they can make it on your top 20-ish Turkey list?!?

The technicolor dreamcoat turkey isn't so bad! But the others... wow. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a small percentage of the cupcakes are really just giant mounds of icing with no cake underneath!

Oh good lord, where to start? First of all, the albino techicolor dream turkey is a rare and endandered species. I would appreciate a little respect. Secondly, I'm pretty sure the vortex of insanity turkey is really the love child of Simba the Lion King and a turkey. And lastly, a poo turkey is nothing if not incedibly appetizing. I recommend using that guy as a centerpiece througout your Thanksgiving feast. Everyone will thank you for it. *sarcasm font*

The grossest turkey cake I saw this season (unfortunately, the picture didn't turn out right) was at the grocery near my home. It was a plated turkey, but sticking out of the back was actual stuffing (ala Stove Top)... not faux stuffing or cake made to look like it.. but Stove Top. ugh.

I'm starting to wonder if there is such a thing as an attractive Thanksgiving cake, or turkey cake. Although, I'm not sure I'd ever really want my cake to look like a turkey. That just confuses my senses.

Strangely, after looking at the posts for the past three days, I find that I have NO IDEA what a turkey looks like anymore. Sort of a chicken-snail with curlicues? An orange peacock? A brown rooster with a fluorescent squirrel's tail?!?!?

(Off to watch some nature videos and attempt to regain some semblance of sanity...

vortex of insanity cake is sad and scary. sheetcake turkey looks to me like some sort of clam with seaweed stuck to it. the turkey cupcakes, particularly the second ones, are simply alarming. i agree that thanksgiving is a pie holiday. the only way to wreck a pie is to drop it.-helenwv: binests: these cakes have binests-tremely fun to look at!

The first cake is not a turkey. It is Homey D. Clown from the In Living Color sketch show. For some reason his head has been stuck on the front of a block of cake. It's just one more instance of the Man trying to keep a brother down.

I do think the turkey snails/hedgehogs are kinda cute. Maybe these were made for those eating contests where you have your hands tied behind your back. Although that would make the paper part difficult...but hey - the markings of a true champion is overcoming great odds, right? Ha!

Is the vortex turkey a 'Total Perspective Vortex' turkey, which exposes your brain to the true vastness of the universe and drives you completely insane? There was definitely cake involved in *that* Vortex... ( Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference; the book/radio play, not the movies)...

But... I *like* the Electrocuted Turkey! It's kind of stylish, and it has this confidence to the design that most real Wrecks lack. I would happily eat it.

Speaking of eating, am I the only one whom it strikes as slightly weird that people apparently feel the need to represent their food/prey with such festive, happy-looking, even anthropomorphic imagery?

Joy said...I'm starting to wonder if there is such a thing as an attractive Thanksgiving cake, or turkey cake. Although, I'm not sure I'd ever really want my cake to look like a turkey. That just confuses my sense.

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Well there is my turkey cakes that I have made. I made this one because our pumpkins didn't grow that year. Anyway have a look.

OK, so I have to cast my vote FOR the Technicolor Albino Turkey - festive, colorful, and ... mutant. And the same for the cancan turkey cupcakes - that I think look more like mini-pinatas. (You've heard of Whack a mole? This could be Twack a Turkey.)

rasta chicken.... bwa ha ha ha... along with the swirl sh.... shudder.. but more bwa ha ha.... who knew there were so many ways to wreck the turkey cake. Perhaps your president should be pardoning the bakers rather than the fowl?

Fact: Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey, instead of the eagle, to be our national symbol. But before you start feeling glad it didn't happen that way, wait until you see what the Wreckorators do with eagles!

Truly, the harvest has been bountiful this Thanksgiving. Thank you wreckerators, and thank you Jen.

I do mean that...the last few days have been extra awesome because there are so many wrecks featured! Not to confuse my holidays (because that was from a few days ago), but it's kind of like Christmas to get so much awesomeness in one day.

before i read what you had to say after the cupcake wrecks, the first thing i thought was 'how do you pick those things up?!?' and then i read your caption, and couldn't stop laughing! the rest of the post didn't help either. turkeys are so funny to me now!

Yes, and turkeys also don't have a stitch of orange or yellow on them. Brown, grey, black, creamy white, irridiscent (sp?), or I have seen all white domesticated ones, but really, orange and yellow? I'd be worried about the mutant genes in that one.Erin G.

Just thought of another thing Technicolor Dream Coat turkey reminded me of. If you've ever seen "That 70s Show," you'll know that transitions between scenes are marked with one or more of the characters doing a dance or something in front of a crazy, technicolored, 70s background. That's sort of what this turkey looks like.

I love the vortex of insanity turkey. It may not look like a turkey but there's something funky about it.

Is it bad that I just had a "OMG, I could totally make that!" moment over the turkey cupcakes? Sure it was only 3 seconds till my brain thought to question why on earth I'd want to but in those 3 seconds it managed to list the colors and tips and method necessary.

I know I'm late to the party, but "electrocuted turkey" had me laughing so hard I was crying at work. My coworkers are like, what is WRONG with you??? I've had residual laughter all day thinking about it!

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